SPONSORS 2024

Chedid Re, a company of Chedid Capital, is the story of an exceptional team comprised of ambitious individuals who are constantly seeking success. Over the years, Chedid Re has become a leading institution with over 300 employees and operations across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and South Asia.
With a devoted team of experts based in Beirut, Casablanca, Dubai, Limassol, London, Riyadh, Paris and Abidjan we strongly believe in integrity, professionalism and loyalty, and we are committed to adhering to guidelines, and in ensuring delivery in growth and profit projections. This has enabled us to become an intermediary of choice for many regional and international capacity providers for the insurance market and recognized as one of the Top 20 Reinsurance Brokers in the world (GR magazine in collaboration with Swiss Re) and an official Lloyds Broker.
In June 2015, Chedid Re was registered as a Lloyd’s broker. The approval came as a natural extension of our longstanding and successful cooperation with Lloyd’s that started at the very beginning, 25 years ago.
Chedid Re’s registration as a Lloyd’s broker is testament to how our company is a trusted, international partner and renowned player in the reinsurance industry. Our sustained expansion has resulted in dynamic international exposure.
Chedid Re’s business activities and goals complement Lloyd’s growth strategy, and the registration into the Lloyd’s market as a broker demonstrates that both Chedid Re and Lloyd’s have aligned goals.

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LINK is a Bermuda-based reinsurance broker delivering treaty and facultative placement services and advisory. Founded in 2012, the company is now entering its second decade of operation.
Our current geographic focus is on the Middle East and North Africa markets, which we serve through our offices in Beirut, Lebanon and Dubai, UAE.
LINK’s mission is to provide expert support and profitable, innovative services to its business partners, led by a group of executives with decades of experience in key positions with world-leading insurers and reinsurers.
We leverage our teams’ solid experience and strong actuarial capabilities to provide our partners bespoke placement and advisory services, as well as advanced analytical frameworks and tools to improve their commercial and financial performance. In addition, we believe in providing disruptive benefit by leveraging our connections with key players in the Insurtech space to help our ceding and reinsuring partners embark on game-changing digitalization initiatives.

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Pace, Passion & Professionalism
Manoj Re was an idea born after spending 18 years as an insurance and reinsurance broker in the Middle East.
I felt an unshakeable compulsion to explore my own abilities and to create a unique reinsurance broking house with a different perspective, approach, and services – benefiting both employees and clients equally.
Enter Manoj Re, a broking house that supports clients in all dynamics: Reinsurance placements, risk advisory, claims management, technical reviews, technical training, and non-technical training (professional development programs).
Manoj Re is managed by industry veterans and passionate brokers, extending our service with pace, passion, and professionalism.
With the support of our loyal clients, Manoj Re will grow from strength to strength with plans to expand offices in the key regional markets.
Our intention is to leverage our talent and experience to become invaluable to the market and our clients by extending fast, prompt, and dependable reinsurance broking services and solutions.
Our aim is to hit the moon! To be a top global reinsurance broker and to create the best work culture. As founder and team leader, it’s my responsibility to deliver the best to our clients, our employees, and to our shareholders and to protect all our mutual interests on this amazing journey.
At your service,
Zagariah Manoj Varghese
Managing Director & CEO

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Established in 2015 at the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), MENA RE Underwriters Ltd. is a fully-owned subsidiary of Doha Insurance Group (DIG), which attains an A- rating from Standard & Poor’s.
We are a specialist insurance provider with a global outreach, benefitting from a team that has a strong reputation built upon over decades in the business. By strategically investing in growth across the region’s key
markets, we are strongly focused on asserting a solid long-term position within the regional reinsurance market. We bring a comprehensive understanding of risk, underpinned by our unique data and analytics
approach.
We write a range of specialty reinsurance risks on both excess of loss and proportional basis, including: Political Violence, Marine Cargo, Financial Lines, Professional Lines and Liabilities.

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Nasco France is a leading reinsurance broker in the MENA region with over 45 years of industry experience and amongst the top largest reinsurance brokers in France.  It is the trade name and the corporate power behind an experienced and talented multinational team with extensive market knowledge.  The success of the company is the result of its business strategy focusing exclusively on clients’ needs.  Rather than seeking a global presence, resources are dedicated to the constant strengthening of business relationships.  Operating also as a direct insurance broker, Nasco France offers a highly personalized service dedicated to individuals and corporations seeking tailor-made insurance covers, protection of their assets or worldwide assistance.

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Founded in 1996, Protection Insurance Services “Protection Re”, is a Bahrain-based insurance and reinsurance brokerage firm, licensed and regulated by the Central Bank of Bahrain. Protection Re has grown to be one of the more established, value-added players and has built an attractive track record since establishment. Our experienced professional team is running a harmonical orchestral gamut with leading insurers, underwriting agencies, facility providers and cedents. Over decades, Protection Re placed various efforts to carefully select a number of strategic segments by which it can generate growth and build a long-term profitable business. Protection Re’s operations extend geographically to cover the whole Middle-East, Indian Subcontinent, South-East Asia, Africa and Europe. This market exposure has given it a broad experience and a deep understanding of the insurance market. This has also developed its relationships with clients and business partners throughout these regions. Our approach is to play a vital role in the Risk assessment and evaluation, expert negotiation, policy placement and administration, risk advice and claims management.

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WAICA Re operates as a reinsurance company offering reinsurance services to insurance companies in Africa, Middle East and parts of the Asian continent.
It was formed by West African insurance companies Association (WAICA) which had commenced as a pool in 2011. Subsequently, the Association registered WAICA Re in Sierra Leone in March 2011 with the aim of mitigating the effects of lack of reinsurance capacity within the West African insurance industry. The Company has since become one of the leading reinsurance underwriters in Africa and beyond.

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ISA Assist is a leading travel insurance and assistance company with subsidiaries across the insurance value chain. We operate in more than 20 countries and serve several stakeholders, including insurance companies, travel agencies, airlines, and visa facilitators.

Our success stems from our unique ability to deliver comprehensive end-to-end solutions in travel insurance and assistance. Our products and solutions are innovative and tailored specifically to our clients. They are also backed by A-rated reinsurers. The underlying operations is enabled by advanced proprietary tech systems and Apps. As for claims handling, we cover claimants worldwide, seamlessly and on direct-billing basis.

With decades of experience and a proven track record, we assist more than a hundred insurance companies, thousands of agents and corporate accounts, and ultimately serve millions of travelers every year.

At ISA Assist, we’re Happy to Assist!

ISA is an insurance and reinsurance broker which is part of a group that specializes in insurance and that has subsidiaries across the insurance value chain: including a risk carrier, a TPA, an assistance company and several brokerage entities. ISA was created 25 years ago with a focus on Travel and Marine Cargo insurance. Following its success in these niche lines and leveraging on the relationships it has built with numerous reinsurers and cedents across the MENA region, ISA evolved into a fully-fledged broker offering different solutions to insurance companies and large corporate accounts. Today ISA serves more than 60 insurance companies in the GCC and Africa and large corporate accounts, offering them world-class expertise by line with a strong knowledge of local markets.

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As part of Volante Global, we are a global insurance and reinsurance group expanding rapidly in multiple territories worldwide. The Volante (DIFC) Ltd team is highly experienced and has a successful track record in executive management roles in the insurance and reinsurance market. We specialise in delivering commercial and consumer reinsurance solutions to a region covering the Middle East, Turkey, and selected territories worldwide.

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W-Safe is a global Reinsurance company that presents clients with primary capacity in both Life and Non-life Insurance. We are also into Run-off Management and Acquisitions.
Our firm belief behind our Life underwriting is that the most precious asset the world is human life, and we take pride in ensuring maximum insurance penetration to all consumers, even the last man standing. W-Safe was envisaged in 2018 and was established in 2021 by industry veterans and is backed by Reputed Business House with varied investment interests. We are a member of a AIO. We are also a member of OESAI. We have collaborated with the ‘College of Insurance Uganda’ to encourage and spread education. We will encourage all coming of age players to grow and unlock their true potential by providing right capacity

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Founded in 1899, AM Best is the world’s largest credit rating agency specializing in the insurance industry.  Headquartered in the United States, the company does business in over 100 countries with regional offices in London, Amsterdam, Dubai, Hong Kong, Singapore and Mexico City.
AM Best greatly expanded its coverage in MENA, becoming the pre-eminent rating agency for insurers in the region. AM Best’s MENA, South & Central Asia office, established in the Dubai International Financial Centre, services clients throughout the region and develops new relationships with both start-ups and established companies.
AM Best Rating Services assesses the creditworthiness of and/or reports on over 16,000 insurance companies worldwide.  Our commentary, research and analysis provide additional insight.
AM Best Information Services integrates credit ratings, commentary, research and analysis with insurance news, financial data and thought leadership to help consumers and professionals make informed personal and business decisions.
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Our Insight, Your Advantage

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SHIELDS is an International Reinsurance Intermediary and Reinsurance Management company headquartered in Dubai, regulated by the DFSA (UAE), FCA (UK) and fully registered broker at Lloyd’s of London.

Your strategy is our mission; we will strive to achieve higher results and provide you with the solutions you require.

Our highly skilled team specialises in both Treaty and Facultative risks based in the Middle East, Africa and South-West Asia.

Our Analytics team provides Financial Modelling and Catastrophe Modelling Services to help our clients quantify their exposure and make informed decisions.

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Expert underwriters at Lloyd’s, provide their Middle East customers with innovative insurance solutions backed by financial security and strong international ratings that Lloyd’s has always been known for.
After a re-balancing of the oil price markets, many governments throughout the region are accelerating technology, innovation and investing in education to help diversify their economies. With this diversification strategy comes increased insurance opportunities.
While marine and property insurance remain a traditional insurance product for the Middle East market, specialist lines including renewable and nuclear energy, political violence and terrorism along with trade credit are increasingly growing in demand.
By offering solutions to protect public and private assets, and by sharing our risk intelligence, Lloyd’s will continue to support the regional insurance market, build local resilience and help support a developing risk culture throughout the Middle East.
The depth of expertise and breadth of products sets the Lloyd’s market apart. Customers have access to the combined scale, expertise and capacity of an entire market, not just a single insurance company.
As our world is reshaped by economic, environmental, geopolitical and technological shifts, the breadth, depth and responsiveness of the Lloyd’s market gives Middle East businesses the confidence to move forward in the face of uncertainty.

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Prevensure is a privately held regional holding group specializing in insurance, reinsurance broking, customized risk management solutions, and underwriting. As a horizontally integrated financial entity, Prevensure is led by a dedicated team committed to providing innovative, entrepreneurial, and digitally savvy solutions.
Our strength lies in delivering personalized, value-oriented, and specialty-driven solutions. Operating in the United Arab Emirates, Cyprus, Iraq, and Lebanon, our multicultural team collaborates to provide optimal solutions tailored to the industry. Renowned regional clients have selected Prevensure as their preferred insurance partner, appreciating our dynamic, accessible team and commitment to delivering constant, consistent solutions that enhance profitability.
With over 75 years of collective experience, we have established significant relationships with top-tier corporate clients across the Middle East, GCC, Iraq, Lebanon, and Egypt. Our strategy focuses on diversifying business lines and geographic expansion, leading to rapid growth and the establishment of a presence in four countries.
The success achieved positions us for anticipated growth, aiming to enhance both revenue and profitability. Our evolving status as a prominent market competitor cements our strong market footprint and operational excellence.

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The African Reinsurance Corporation (Africa Re) is the leading pan-African reinsurance company and the largest reinsurer in Africa in terms of net reinsurance written premiums.
Africa Re was set up by 36 African states in 1976, following a recommendation of the African Development Bank (AfDB), to develop the insurance and reinsurance industry in Africa through increased underwriting and retention capacities, and to support the economic development of the continent.
Ranked 36th in the 2019 Standard & Poor’s Global Reinsurance Groups and 41st in the Top 50 Global Reinsurance Groups by AM Best in 2019, Africa Re has a broad-based shareholding comprising: 42 African member States (34.63%); the African Development Bank (8.38%); 114 African insurance and reinsurance companies (34.94%); and 3 non regional shareholders (23.05%), including leading global insurers and reinsurers from France (AXA), Canada (FAIRFAX) and Germany (ALLIANZ SE).
With headquarters in Lagos (Nigeria), Africa Re operates through six (6) Regional Offices across Africa: Casablanca (Morocco), Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire), Nairobi (Kenya), Lagos (Nigeria), Cairo (Egypt) and Ebene (Mauritius). Africa Re equally has one (1) Local Office in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), one Underwriting Representative Office in Kampala, Uganda and three (3) Subsidiaries (Africa Re South Africa Limited in Johannesburg (South Africa), Africa Retakaful in Cairo (Egypt) and Africa Re Underwriting Agency Limited in Dubai (The United Arab Emirates)..

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Founded in 2020, Neema Insurance Managing Agency (NEEMA) is a multi-class reinsurance MGA which has offices in London and Mauritius. NEEMA has binders and lineslips from reinsurers (including Southern Pacific Insurance Corporation ( SOPAC)) which are committed to its current target markets (Africa, Middle East and Asia). NEEMA and SOPAC have entered into a long-term partnership whereby SOPAC has provided NEEMA with an exclusive underwriting pen for Africa, Middle East and Asia. SOPAC is a 17-year-old American insurance company with a global focus. SOPAC has achieved 100% year on year increases in net written premium for the past 4 consecutive years with NEEMA being their number one producer of business. NEEMA’s strategy is to think and act differently with the aim of achieving quantum leaps that some may perceive as impossible to attain. NEEMA remains absolutely focused on building its business to a premium income of USD 500 million, whilst concurrently delivering exceptional profits to its capacity providers through its proven underwriting model

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One of the largest TPA Groups in the region, NAS Neuron Health Services provides an array of healthcare administration services to insurance companies, and government entities on self-funded basis, by organizing efficient, innovative and affordable access for its 1.6+ Million members. NAS Neuron Health Services offers integrated claims adjudication, pharmacy benefits management, privileged & holistic corporate wellness services and advanced technological innovations aimed at ensuring cost-effective healthcare solution, whilst providing convenient access to its members. NAS Neuron Health Services also offers other services including appointment booking and telehealth services.

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